Transfiguration: Spiritual Jazz pt.2

In this episode we conclude our survey of 1970s spiritual jazz with some lesser known cuts from the canon. Several of the tunes here were once hard-to-find collectors items, but the renewed interest in this body of work has led to reissues and an enlarged audience for these awesome pieces. Tim and Jeremy discuss the various religious sources on the practitioners of spiritual jazz, from Buddhism and Hinduism to African and Gospel influences. They unpack the problems with the term ‘spiritual’, consider this music’s utopian horizons and conduct a little reception history of how this sound lost and found an audience. 

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Produced by Matt Huxley

Tracklist:

Benny Maupin - The Jewel in the Lotus

Toudie Heath Kamili - Kuumba

The Pyramids - Birth / Speed / Merging pt.1

Shamek Farrah - The World of the Children

Alice Coltrane - Transfiguration

Sun Ra - Lanquidity